'Pas de fumer'

Thursday 23 January 1997 00:02 GMT
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French smokers were fuming over the country's first

court decision to order a crackdown on tobacco use in public under a theoretically tough, but virtually unenforced, 1991 law.

A civil court in Lyon ruled that the state-owned SNCF railways had failed adequately to enforce the anti-smoking law in the central French city's Part-Dieu train station. Reuters - Paris

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